on the sixteenth of the month of Ramadan, in the city of Bilbays (1). His body was then carried to Cairo, and he was buried in al-Qarafa on the night of Thursday, beside the Dome of al-Shafi‘i—may Allah envelop them both in His mercy.
Al-Hajj ‘Ali, the well-known muezzin of the Umayyad Mosque:
Al-Hajj ‘Ali ibn (2) Faraj (3) ibn Abi al-Fadl al-Kattani. His father was one of the finest muezzins, a man of piety and religion who enjoyed the people’s esteem. ‘Ali himself had a pleasant, powerful voice; he was warm-hearted, eager to serve, and generous. He performed the pilgrimage more than once and heard hadith from Abu ‘Umar and others.
He died on the night of Wednesday, the third of Dhu al-Qa‘dah. The funeral prayer was offered for him in the morning, and he was buried at Bab al-Saghir.
In that same month of Dhu al-Qa‘dah: Shaykh Faḍl (5) ibn Shaykh al-Rujihi al-Yunusi (6); his brother Yusuf was installed in his place at the zawiya (7).
[Then the year 728 AH began.]
[In Dhu al-Qa‘dah of that year came the death of Shaykh al-Islam Abu al-‘Abbas Ahmad ibn Taymiyya—may Allah sanctify his soul; his obituary will be given in the section on deaths, if Allah wills] (8).
The new year commenced (9) [and the governors of the provinces were the same as those listed for the previous year, apart from the deputy of Egypt and the judge of Aleppo].
(1) “Bilbis”: a city located ten farsakhs from Fustat on the road to Sham. It was conquered by Amr ibn al-As in the year 18 or 19 AH. See Yaqut.
(2) His biography appears in al-Durar al-Kamina (vol. 3, p. 136).
(3) In al-Durar under the entry “Nuh.”
(4) In the Khuddam edition.
(5) His biography appears in al-Daris (vol. 2, p. 216).
(6) In the Tunsi edition it reads “al-Tunsi,” which is a corruption. The correct nisba is al-Qinni, referring to Yunus ibn Yusuf ibn Musaad al-Shaybani al-Makhariqi al-Qinni (from al-Qinniya near Mardin). He was the sheikh of the Yunusiya order. See Manadamat al-Atlal, p. 313.
(7) The Yunusiya zawiya—previously discussed. (al-Daris, vol. 2, p. 213.)
(8) Absent from the B edition.
(9) Absent from the B edition. The text reads: “And the caliph al-Mustakfi billah, and the sovereign of the realm, al-Malik al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qalawun, who has no deputy in the Egyptian lands. The Shafii judge there is Jalal al-Din al-Qazwini; the Hanafi judge is Shams al-Din al-Hariri; the Maliki judge is Taqi al-Din al-Akhna’i; the Hanbali judge [blank in the original]. The vizier of Egypt is Ala al-Din Maghltai al-Jamali, the ustadh, and the deputy of Damascus is Prince Sayf al-Din Tunqiz. Their judges are the same as those previously mentioned except for the Shafii judge, who is Ala al-Din al-Qunawi, and the Hanbali judge, who is Izz…”